The next morning Ania set out on foot, accompanied by Islamullah, a servant of Moghal Beg’s, who was also the bearer of a letter to the Nawab.  They hired two ponies when they became tired, but both flagged before they reached Nagina, whence Ania proceeded to Firozpur, on a mare belonging to the native collector, leaving Islamullah behind.  He gave his letter to the Nawab, who desired him to describe the affair of the murder.  He did so.  The Nawab seemed very much pleased, and asked him whether Karim appeared to be in any alarm.  Ania told him that he did not, and had resolved to stick to one story, though he should be imprisoned for twelve years.  ‘Karim Khan,’ said the Nawab, turning to the brother-in-law of the former, Wasil Khan, and Hasan Ali, who stood near him—­’Karim Khan is a very brave man, whose courage may be always relied on.’  He gave Ania eighteen rupees, and told him to change his name, and keep close to Wasil Khan.  They retired together; but, while Wasil Khan went to his house, Ania stood on the road unperceived, but near enough to hear Hasan Ali urge the Nawab to have him put to death immediately, as the only chance of keeping the fatal secret.  He went off immediately to Wasil Khan, and prevailed upon him to give him leave to go home for that night to see his family, promising to be back the next morning early.

He set out forthwith, but had not been long at home when he learned that Hasan Ali, and another confidential servant of the Nawab, were come in search of him with some troopers.  He concealed himself in the roof of his house, and heard them ask his wife and children where he was, saying they wanted his aid in getting out some hyaenas they had traced into their dens in the neighbourhood.  They were told that he had gone back to Firozpur, and returned; but were sent back by the Nawab to make a more careful search for him.  Before they came, however, he had gone off to his friends Kamruddin and Johari, two brothers who resided in the Rao Raja’s territory.  To this place he was followed by some Mewatis, whom the Nawab had induced, under the promise of a large reward, to undertake to kill him.  One night he went to two acquaintances, Makram and Shahamat, in a neighbouring village, and begged them to send to some English gentleman in Delhi, and solicit for him a pardon, on condition of his disclosing all the circumstances of Mr. Fraser’s murder.  They promised to get everything done for him through a friend in the police at Delhi, and set out for that purpose, while Ania returned and concealed himself in the hills.  In six days they came with a paper, purporting to be a promise of pardon from the court of Delhi, and desired Kamr-ud-din to introduce them to Ania.  He told them to return to him in three days, and he would do so; but he went off to Ania in the hills, and told him that he did not think these men had really got the papers from the English gentlemen—­that they appeared to him to be in the service of the Nawab himself.  Ania was, however, introduced to them when they came back, and requested that the paper might be read to him.  Seeing through their designs, he again made off to the hills, while they went out in search, they pretended, of a man to read it, but in reality to get some people who were waiting in the neighbourhood to assist in securing him, and taking him off to the Nawab.